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[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 14/06/2013, at 8:09 PM, Marianne Franklin <m.i.franklin at gold.ac.uk> wrote:

> It is a fundamental principle of equality surely online too? Openness and transparency are what we are fighting for, no?

I think so, but I'm trying to be a neutral facilitator here, and this an issue on which there are equally strong opinions on both sides, manifested by repeated (off-list, uncuriously) requests for a closed list.  I'm for radical transparency personally, but it seems to be quite an alien concept to some segments of civil society (I've found this in working on trade issues, for example), and so offering the choice seems to be the best middle path to take.  The default though, I certainly agree, should be to use the open lists.

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